Russell griffiths

I must admit when I first looked at the pic I didn’t like the idea of ffl lower than outside soil level i have found previously it made for some funky orientation of the dpm to prevent damp penetration to the inside.

Can you tell us why you want to hire one, I have used one many times and they are expensive to hire, you will need to drive a good way to collect it and a long way to take it back. If you don’t collect it you will have to pay delivery and collection. You can hire a team of two lads and a pump for £400, you can get a line pump fitted on a 7.5 ton truck which will squeeze into a surprisingly tight gap. You would need a pretty strong reason to convince me that hiring one yourself is the way to go.

Looks smashing, lovely timberwork. I’m still dreaming of the day we might get planning.

Could you elaborate on what your change of build up was, its reading your blog @Stones that has prompted a lot of my questions. I might have to ask a few more. Thanks russ.

Any pics.

Can I get sketch up on an I pad. Or do I need a computer. Ta.

Thanks as always everyone for some very informative answers, so would there be a comfortable u value, where trying to achieve more would be a waste. For arguments sake if I could achieve 0.15 for the budget I have in mind would I be better off spending another £5000 on more insulation to pull the walls down to say 0.13 or spend the extra £5000 on a higher spec glass.

We are thinking of changing the beams for gluelams, this pic is from the states where anything seems to be ok.

Oh god, I hope I haven’t upset anybody. Either admin or forum users. Night night. ?

So confused as usual. I read a thing recently regarding, what is the point in having super dooper walls if you have 75% glazing in that wall. Well I think I may be in that position, I’m trying to decide on a buildmethod and the approximate u value achieved with that build up, but if you look at the pic below this is a design we have been following and the rear wall will have a very similar look to the pic. Would you consider the amount of glass area to have such an effect on the overall heat loss that making really low u value walls will be a waste with all that glass, even with good quality windows and doors I don’t believe they come close to matching the walls. Any thoughts.

Wasn’t me?Guvnor.

Oh good god. @JSHarris I was asked to remove the pic,??? that’s why I was trying to put it up with a link and not the actual pic. Ian will be after you now ?? honestly ian I did try and do the right thing, but I get easily led astray.

Have been trying to post up the pic in a url link but my I pad just doesn’t like it. Oh well your all just have to imagine something a bit silly that tickled me. But I am easily amused.

Evening. Does anybody know of a good design app that I can use for trying different materials and colours on the exterior of my house, I’ve recently used another app called architouch which I think is excellent for planning and layout, but I’m struggling to add external finishes apart from ones that are stored within the app which is a bit limited. Cheers.

Tbh I thought the topic title would get you all looking. Flikr how do you do that then?

I have just deleted it, I think it might have been offensive to some (sorry). To many years on site.

Had to get some stickers made up after somebody thought it was ok to borrow me ammer. the hammer in question

Looking at the size of your place I would expect at least that. Another job for @Nickfromwales

As @nod said you really should have a cavity closer with a dpc under the coping. If the coping is made of any form of concrete/stone, it WILL let moisture through into your cavity.

Just had a look while having a cuppa. Nudura do a custom cut radius block. Have a look at there intro vid showing all the different blocks they do.

I think on the nudura you tube vids they cut the blocks into slices and glue back together to make the correct shape. If you make a ply wood template you could pre cut and glue using the template and carry over in one piece to place in the wall adding reo could be a challenge. Are you bays semi circular? Or segmented like a 50p we used to make a template / profile when doing curved brickwork. I think a similar thing would work.

Is this temporary or permanent? i have found even with the black membrane you will get weeds they can grow from top down as well as from bottom up you will find you will get weeds from any form of seed spread be it the wind or birds or you wheeling the mower across the surface. Unless this is going to be the mutts nuts finished article I think I wouldn’t bother with the membrane. Get some roundup and give it a spray every now and again to keep the edges tidy.

E bay.

So they are screwed together, do they not have a ridge beam under them? This isn’t a detail I have seen before, has this been drawn up like this for you? Just spotted the big purlin built into the blockwork. Carry on ?

I would say raise the wall plate as well. What is going on with those rafters in the second pic? do you intend bolting them together or something?